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by warent 5y ago
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm, but many Scandinavian countries have apparently learned how to make enough money to provide some of the best public resources in the world, that make the USA look like a developing country
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by warent 5y ago
It's fascinating!... But am I the only one who finds this actually aesthetically unpleasant?
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by warent 5y ago
On one side I'm being bombarded with news about Google's anticompetitive greedy practices and disregard for customers. On the other side I'm being bombarded with news about Apple's anticompetitive greedy practices and di
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by warent 5y ago
Going off on a tangent here, but I'm curious to know what would be meaningless and boring about it. This would permanently solve the first two foundations of Maslow's hierarchy of needs so people can focus on the top three. It cou
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by warent 5y ago
The fact that the western society finds job automation to be a danger (or dystopian) is an indicator that something is severely dated at best--or dangerously corrupt at worst--with our economic system. Such a thing would be a utopian outc
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by warent 6y ago
It's a great discussion to have when the matter at hand is that subtle. Frankensteining together human stem cells and monkey blastocysts until something works is pretty far from surgically selecting specific genes. From the article: T
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by warent 6y ago
Just how many women create a fetus and abort it in the name of science? Human embryos are not manufactured for experimentation. What you're talking about is completely orthogonal. Now, breeding/manufacturing animals for experiment
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by warent 6y ago
The mental framework we were programmed with in childhood (usually by parents) is a huge factor here too. My parents were super critical and judgemental, and pretty much taught me not to trust myself. It took years of work on this to kind o
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by warent 6y ago
Ha! Those are bizarre. It doesn't make me feel uneasy in the same way, it just looks like something a kid would put together in the Sims.
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by warent 6y ago
I think it has something to do with uncanny valley. Just like how distorted human faces look unsettling, this is the same mechanism. The letters are deeply rooted in our interpretation of the world, so when those symbols are distorted, it i
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by warent 6y ago
> The problem with this sort of rant is that no amount of equity would ever be enough to satisfy you ... if this opinion hurts your feelings, you should probably spend less time on what is principally a venture capitalism forum. I find i
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by warent 6y ago
This strikes me as very similar to an abusive, narcissistic person miraculously having a change of heart and wanting to mend the path of destruction behind them after being diagnosed with a terminal illness. Here we see Bezos hurriedly try
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by warent 6y ago
this is better than my fiber internet in los angeles
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by warent 6y ago
this seems like taking on a pretty huge risk for a minor convenience. the difference between those two queries can mean the difference between protecting someone's PII
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by warent 6y ago
Politics are going to exist in the workplace no matter what because workplaces are made of humans. Advocacy and activism are a bad thing?
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by warent 6y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. Most of the content on Netflix that I've been seeing lately is pretty much shovelware. After I finished all the good Bollywood films (Aamir Khan!) I've been looking for more good foreign films.
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by warent 6y ago
If your third party libraries are so poisoned that you're leaking localstorage, you've got bigger problems than just localstorage... This argument against using localstorage makes no sense
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by warent 6y ago
I get your comment on diversity but imagine saying the same thing if they were black. Just because they're white that doesn't make it less offensive
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by warent 6y ago
Pretty much every famous genius in history has spewed numerous claims, collecting lots of hits and lots of misses along the way. It's part of being human that thinks big. Thinking big means missing the mark a lot. I'm not an Elon
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by warent 6y ago
my perspective on this evolved over time to understand it in a comforting way. Inside our bodies, cells are constantly dying, and new cells are returning in their place. Death isn't something that happens someday; it's something t
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by warent 6y ago
Nothing is stopping you, except that individual accounts are not sold. It's anonymized bundles. Basically you may as well just buy scratch cards or play the lottery
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by warent 6y ago
No argument there!
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by warent 6y ago
LOL this is basically the Juicero of weaponizing humans. Absurdly over-engineered solution searching for a problem.
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by warent 6y ago
I'll be the cynical one this time and say that I'd rather carefully calculated PR stunts didnt have an affect of making corporations seem more fun and human. Sociopaths wear all kinds of convincing masks
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by warent 6y ago
I'm not sure how you do this unless you have a static IP somehow? In my experience ISPs don't offer that to residential clients
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by warent 6y ago
Disagree with this... it has been thoroughly acknowledged with regretful apologies. There comes a time for healing so everyone can move forward. Plus, I don't know Alan Turing but it seems unlikely he would have wanted to be remembered
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by warent 6y ago
I think these days high priced apartments are only affordable by the wealthy, unless people are grouping together with multiple roommates, at which point it means they can't actually afford the apartment, so is it really middle class a
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by warent 6y ago
I thought it was a well known problem that in the US class disparity (i.e. the gap between middle class and upper class) is increasing. The middle class is evaporating, becoming very rich or borderline poverty. Am I confused? WaPo isn'
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by warent 6y ago
I this awesome... I've always done Array.from(new Array But your approach makes perfect sense and is so much cleaner. Thank you! If anyone is wondering why it works, it's because everything in JavaScript is an object. So, an array

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